GUSTAVE DORÉ (1832-1883)

Lot 303
16.10.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1470335
Lot 303 | GUSTAVE DORÉ (1832-1883)
Valeur estimée
£ 5 000 – 8 000
GUSTAVE DORÉ (1832-1883)
'...here I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more...': an illustration for Edgar Allan Poe: 'The Raven'
signed Gv Doré (lower right)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, heightened with white on paper
52,7 x 35,4 cm. (20 ¾ x 13 7/8 in.)




Provenance

Karl & Faber, Munich, 27-28 November 1980, lot 466.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.



Exhibited

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Verhext – Phantastische Graphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 1997-July 1998 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers – Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, March-October 1999 and March-October 2000, p. 38 (ill.) & p. 94.



Engraved

for F. S. King in E. A. Poe, The Raven, London, Sampson Low, 1883, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1884 (see H. Leblanc, Catalogue de l’œuvre complet de Gustave Doré, Paris, 1931, pp. 280-281)
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